Drugs and your body

What Are Drugs?

• A medicine or substance that has an effect on the body when consumed

• A Powder

• Medicine that is prescribed to you at the hospital

Which One Of these Items Are Not A Drug?

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my young brain is not good at making decisions because my prefontal cortex is still growing

• True

• False

Drugs can cause changes on the brain

• TRUE

• FALSE

Dopamine is .....

• a chemical in the brain linked to sensation of pleasure

• a chemical found in the drugs that affects the brain

• region in the brain involved in emotions

Adolescents brains are more vulnerable than an adult therefore they are more likely to become addicted to drugs.

• True

• False

Dopamine is involved in

• Gateway drug use

• jumpiness

• users feeling pleasure

• puberty

Smoking cigarettes fills the lungs with more than ________chemicals

• 10,000

• 1000

• 7000

• 15

Smoking cigarettes is associated with increased risk of respiratory (breathing) diseases, including all BUT what?

• emphysema

• bronchitis

• asthma

• headaches

Cigarette smoking has been linked to what prcentage of lung cancer patients?

• 10%

• 90%

• 100%

• 5%